Irish data protection watchdog fines Google €403M over GDPR breaches

irishtimes.com

Let’s put data miners in a spin

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/09/23/lets-p...

is this a comparatively huge or a comparatively tiny amount, when taken with the money made from these activities? does it escalate if no improvements are made?

I ask because I dont know. The devil is in the details with this stuff

Knowing Ireland and its dependency on big tech this is the watered-down version.

Many issues aren't even followed up by their privacy legislator at all. US big tech companies choose Ireland for tax avoidance and permissive privacy regulators and if that were to change Ireland would use a massive amount of jobs and thus tax revenue.

It's quite big, as a GDPR fine, and by far the biggest that Google has ever had (https://legit.eu/resources/blog/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-...). But it's quite small relative to the largest fine available to the regulator; that would be 4% of Google's global turnover, or 16 billion dollars.

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